Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (883 mails)

[Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@xxxxxxxx>]

On 05/02/2012 12:07 PM, Peter Czanik wrote:
> Hello,
> There is a sr for syslog-ng to move it from / to /usr as part of the
> UsrMerge project. In theory it makes syslog-ng packaging a lot more
> simple. In practice, the latest syslog-ng is often recompiled on older
> distribution versions (think about threading, mongodb output,
> correlation, etc.), where UsrMerge is not supported . So simply
> accepting the sr does not seem to be an option, as I don't want to
> maintain separate spec files...

Are you implying that bugs in older versions can only be fixed by 
upgrading to a new version, which also happens to change the location of 
libraries? This woudl appear like a broken maintenance model to me.

> Question:
> - should I ignore UsrMerge until <12.1 distros are EOL

You would really have to ignore usr merge until EOL of everything less 
than 12.3 (I do not think we'll get everything moved for 12.2). Thus, 
this really wouldn't help.

> - rework syslog-ng.spec based on this sr to have UsrMerge for >12.1 but
> not for earlier releases?


Makes me wonder why this would be necessary. People pulling packages 
from the devel project onto older distributions have signed up for the 
"painful road" to maintaining their system and better know what they are 
doing. In any event, the changes to the spec file maintain a link from 
/sbin to /usr/sbin and from /lib{64} to /usr/lib{64}, thus libraries and 
executables should still be found by anyone/anything looking in the 
"old" places.

Robert

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